Countdown to the Face-Off Classic: 12

In its fourth year, the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic has become the unofficial start to the college lacrosse season, pitting some of the best teams in the land against one another in front of an enthusiastic Baltimore crowd at M&T Bank Stadium. We will be counting down the days to the event with a new fact from now to March 6th. Have you bought your tickets yet?

Countdown to the Face-Off Classic: 12

Recently broken Top-5 Seed Streak for JHU

While the fact that you can still set your watch to Johns Hopkins making it into the NCAA tournament (every year since 1971... No kidding). But another stat that was true until selection Sunday last year was that Johns Hopkins had been a Top 5 seed for 12 years in a row - a feat that was significantly longer than the next team (Virginia got to year No. 5 with last year's tournament). But No. 8 was where the Blue Jays landed, and a feisty Brown squad gave them all they could handle in the first round at Homewood before Brian Christopher donned his superman cape and stung one on the run to send them to the Quarterfinals yet again. Will Johns Hopkins have what it takes in 2010 to get another streak going? You'll have a chance to decide for yourself after watching the Jays take on Princeton at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic.